Casting ingots.



28th, 1908, No; 890,337, dated June 9, 1968, operation the float will be lowered by a '15 or more metals into a mold in such manner tbe float. s tbe pouring proeeeds and Vthe 45 ported upon a stool or bottom block 2 which well up nbove tire general snrtaee,

UNTED STATS lf I W-ILLIAM H. CNNIELL, OF PTT'SB'URGW PENNSYLVAIHA.

caserne ineens.

945,019, Specification 01E Letters Patent. Pfglg li ggg-L Application filed Ifay 8, 1909. Serie?. No. 494,348.

To all whom/t may concern: v of the tno being proportional to the li Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. CQNNELL, ot' the metal desired in the resulting in; 1* residing at Pittsburg, in the county o't lle- The partition 81's secured to tbe amb gheny and State of Pennsylvania, a citizen l of a lioat 7, which may be formed i 5 oi' the United States, llave inventerl or diseclay or other suitable material, 'ibis il cover d `certain new and useful Improve- 4inode of a shane to correspond with tl' ments in Casting Ingots, of which improveterior l the ixigot mold and ot' sne'n re ment the following is a. specification. f dimensions that. it will freely move vertieallg In Letters Patent, No. 885,839, dated April therein. ln the beginning et the tilI have described and claimed certain im,- able tool into the meld until the ,.art proveniente in the manufacture ol'eompound rNts upon the bottom 2, andL tire lam ingots, said improvements consisting genbe supported in a liorizonnxl n tion.

erally stated insmultane'onsly teeming two until :futlieient ius-tal nas flowed in to bfioy 7o that the metals will not intermingle except metal rises in the meid, tn along yand adjacent to a vertical plane. the moved up cari-ying with tlie position of sugli plane being dependent "non W lille in Fig. l l' nave illes the relative volumes of the streams of metal. provement in eonneetion with b The invention described herein relates to ing, the two metals may ne pour eeitain improvements in means for carryinnf top of the mold. ln Fig. f2, openings l. t

ont such methodand consists generally stated l() are formed tlirongli the lion in the interposition of o. plate or partition sides oit the partition for the n between these portions of the two bodies of metal. )It is preferred that i metal Ia'.L itated by .the inlowing streams, and should lbe provided with funnels li automatically withdrawing sach partition as direct the metal tlirongli die respeeti soon as the metals haveoquieted down and ings.

bet'ore any solidiicatiow occurs the nioveritter the. partition has been pla A .ment of the partition being concurrent with sinon, using either the terms olf thoilling of the mold. shown and desoribed, tite two The invention is hereinafter more tally flesimultaneously tesmed into the .scribed and claimed. f or into the tunnels and will flow ln the aeeoinpanying drawings forming a" mold on opposite sides of l part of this specification, .Figure l is a is well vknown in nrt, tl

tional elevation of an ingot mold .showing a. tion ot' tbe metal will occur tloat| adapted to be moved up through `the whether tbe pouring is do' moldA by the metal and having a' partition, tom or through the top.

the )artition Secured` theretofand Fig. 2 is a the' nietnl seems to flow up tliroinf .similar view illustrating a leonstrm-.tion of riolisly teenied metal 'without apparatus for top pouring. i material agitation except in lille ln the practice of. my invention, the ingot lion', there being little agitation mold 1 ma beet' ,any suitable form or con- Snell line ot` tion'. Het; there struction, t ependent of course upon the style. snlerable agitation I a l, 'the 'of ingot to be produeedV The mold is snp metal Where 'the in'llowing tor bottom casting is provided with passages metal. 'ilne partition is inane a.. vein il and l for the introduction of metal through length .suoli that when ythe {ioat is suppe the stool into the bottom of the mold. '.l`lxe-seA on the surface of the metal, tite loew' r passages aro connel'e'd with .stand pipes 5 ot the partition will be below "0 and .G extendiagfup at least to the level, zone. in these constructions which tllelnet'alwill have inthe mold when movement of the partition antoine. u the pouring is completed. Generally one of Heretofore in using partitions to onta: the bodies of metal torbe iwite'd into a comcompound ingots, suc-.li partitions hare been pound ingot, is smallerthan the other body, either designed to' be incorporatedtw and henceone of the Spues und stand pipes metals o :t the ingot, or the partition is made smaller than the other the dimensionsbeen employed. for dividing the molo.

- titled and the surfeee metal molli. ft has been found Soon the second body of even the exposed surpreyiousiy enst is at e ie formed on the surface u .Rettet even if such skin ,ated by the second body. t is .M of m3,' niprovenient 'that both o nr are siniuiteneonsly intro- 'iw the inohi end are held separate agitation thereof, flue to the in has quieted down, and beve any ehniing or Skin can be formed 0n surfaces of either of the metals.

eiriiin herein as my invention:

means for casting compound ingos, the combination of a mold, a Hoet an lnterminghng i monte and after one compart- I adapted to be raised by the metal, a partition carried by the Poat and adapted to extend down into the metal and pouring funnels carried by the float to direct, the metals l to opposite sides of the pzutition` Q. is a means for casting compound ingote, the combination of a. meid, a float :adapted to be raised by the metal and a partition vnrried by the float und arranged t0 extend down into the metal.

$3. As an iniprovenient in the art of cast ing compound ingots the method herein de-Y scribed which consists in simultaneously pouring two streams of metal into a mold but on opposite sides ot' a plate or partition and raising Suid partition by the upward movement of the metal in the mold.

1n testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

A WILLIAM H. CONNELL. Witnesses:

f ALICE A. TRILL,

J. HERBERT BRADLEY.. 

